An unusual association of small bowel atresia and biliary atresia: a case report.

The embryological development of the hepatobiliary bud presupposes that biliary and duodenal malformations are often associated. On the other hand, the association of biliary atresia with more distal small bowel malformations, possibly due to a vascular accident, seems to be fortuitous. We herewith report such a case and, on reviewing the literature, have found only two previous similar observations.

[Sudden death in children and adolescents, carriers of an unrecognized cystic medionecrosis of the aorta].

Four instances of sudden death in childhood and adolescence with autopsy findings are presented. In the four cases unsuspected cystic medionecrosis of the aorta was discovered. In three of the four patients it was associated with a cardiovascular malformation, viz (1) double coarctation of the aorta, (2) coarctation of the aorta associated with Ebstein anomaly, and (3) subvalvular aortic stenosis.

[Clinical significance of placental inflammatory infiltrates].

103 placentas and their annexes obtained from 103 normal pregnancies leading to live-born infants were examined for inflammatory lesions. Inflammatory reactions of variable importance and localisation were seen more often when pregnancy exceeded 40 weeks gestation and when the Scanlon test was positive. No significant correlation could be drawn between gestational infection, premature rupture of the membranes, the aspect of the amniotic fluid, and the bacteriology of the material from the external auditory canal of the newborn.